Saw the trailer for the movie, looked up the books and found there are 13 books in the series.  I love long series books, is this one worth it?

if you are religious and long winded badly written books is up your alley yes it is great.

I flipped through one.  It was horrible.

Sums it up nicely.



 

From a religious standpoint, I understand them to be completely inaccurate.  

For an end of the world type standpoint, I find them to be horrible.

Yes, they're badly written, preachy, and formulaic.  

They're also ludicrous in terms of their basic plot.  The authors are so desperate to thump people over the head with a religious message that they don't even bother to really explore what a world in which 1/5 of the population instantly disappears would even be like.  THey could have made some interesting novels, but they couldn't be bothered.  Instead, Just POOF, they're gone and the people "left behind" in these books are carrying on about their daily lives a few weeks later.  For instance, Imagine if every teacher, every daycare provider, everyone who works for a textbook company, everyone who works for any company that caters to children or produces products for children or services for children, everyone who works for a toy company, video game company, the Disney corporation, any amusement park, etc is instantly unemployed.  There'd be stock market crashes, panic selling, and complete economic ruin overnight, worldwide.  Does this happen in these books?  Nope.  Everyone just moves on with their lives.  People just hear that it was a strange scientific event, shrug, and get on with their lives.

Thanks for the reviews, I will not be purchasing the first book.

I enjoyed the first couple of books, but bailed pretty quickly after that.

The Wheel of Time series is 14 books long. The Aubrey-Maturin series (Master and Commander) comprises 20 volumes.
Here is a list of some other long running series:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LongRunningBookSeries



 

pass on wheel of time, holy shit.

Even a fifth grader that reads the Bible would understand that the doctrine is all messed up. ymmv

I like the series and it made me think a few times. I have the full series but have not read them all as of yet. I was hooked after the first book.

My mom borrowed and read the first one or two and liked them.  I found the rest at a library book sale for a buck each and they had them all.  They were worth at least that, I suppose.  . Made mama happy.

Some people I know loved them.  To me they were written at that 6th grade level and I flipping hate that, some people love it.  Reminded me of Nicholas Sparks writing style.  

A number of years ago I read the first one.  It was pretty half-assed (that's a pun. ETA - more a play on words, not pun).  I really did read the first book and did not like it, so I did not read any others.  Also, several years ago "The Simpsons" had a parody episode.  That should tell you something.

To be fair, hasn't The Simpsons done a parody of everything at this point?

It's blatantly obvious that it was started with the intention of being a trilogy.  The first few books made some money so they dragged it out.  Horrible doesn't even begin to describe them.

I guess I'm the weird one and say that I the series.

I read the first few back in high school or so.  I enjoyed them back then but not sure if I'd read them now.

OP, if you'd like to give them a chance shoot me a PM and I'll send you the ones I have.